English Professor Gustavus Stadler has been awarded an Individual Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to support a year of work on his book-in-progress, Woody Guthrie and the Intimate Life of the Left.

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October 21-25, 2009: Cartoonists Lynda Barry, Eric Drooker, and John Jennings will be joining cultural critics Jared Gardner, Jeet Heer, and Sharon Mizota and members of the Haverford College community for five days of workshops, master classes, lectures, and panel presentations on the role of comics in movements for social change.

Elizabeth Cohen-Scheer ’12 is the first recipient of an award from the President of Haverford College and the Hurford ’60 Humanities Center for student research in English literature; she’ll be in London, studying William Wordsworth at the British Library.

Andrew Lanham ’10 has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Lanham, one of 32 winners from a field of 800 candidates, was one of only three U.S. Rhodes winners from a liberal arts college. Lanham described the rigorous application process as “a journey of self discovery.”

The coveted award, given by the Cave Canem Foundation, goes to exceptional first books by African-American poets. Cave Canem faculty member Elizabeth Alexander, who was selected by President Obama to compose a poem for his inauguration, chose Pollock’s Spit Back a Boy for the award. The University of Georgia Press will publish the book in spring 2011.

Andrew Bostick '12 will be working with the CPGC on two agricultural projects over the summer: the maintenance of a student garden at Haverford and the writing of a proposal to make the garden a permanent program.

A collaboration between Haverford’s Arboretum Association and Thomas Devaney’s Advanced Poetry Workshop led to “Under an Oak: A Tree Poetry Tour,” in which Devaney’s students read their original poems dedicated to campus trees.

A scale model of Canterbury Cathedral, some meat pies, and a witty video on Medieval sexual mores were just a few of the creative final projects conceived by students in Associate Professor of English Maud McInerney's Chaucer class.

Wed. November 11th 2009, 8:00 p.m. - Meditation Room, Woodside Cottage: All members of the Haverford Community are invited to join the Poetry Reading Group and the HHC for a lively evening of poetry, fiction, and far-flung works from across the literary canon! Hosted by Thomas Devaney, Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing.

A roundtable discussion on the future of the humanities in an age of digital archivalism. Speakers include Laura Mandell, U. Miami- Ohio, Caroline Levander, Rice University, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University. Supported, in part, with a grant for Symposium Speakers.

This November 13 symposium attempts to canvass as well as to expand upon the topics related to American lynching and its multiple representations, understandings of the body as a site for social ideology, and materiality as expressed through literature, visual culture, and performance.

This seminar will explore the complex interchange between text and illustration, beginning with the glories of anonymous manuscript illuminators through late Medieval illustrations of Chaucer and early printings of the Bible.

Prof. Solomon's new novel Disgruntled received a rave review in the LA Times from Steph Cha, who wrote that "Disgruntled is . . . a smart, philosophical, coming-of-age tale featuring a vivid protagonist who battles 'the shame of being alive.' . . . Solomon is a masterful writer, and Disgruntled is entertaining and thought-provoking in equal measure."

The associate professor of English has been researching Woody Guthrie for a new book and was granted access to the new Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Okla., for three weeks of intensive work in the archives.

We seek student researchers who are excited about the field, interested in developing and presenting projects of their own, and willing to encourage enthusiasm at their home campuses. Deadline: November 11, 2011

Friday, Sept. 23, 4:30 PM, Chase Auditorium: Iain Pollock’s acclaimed collection of poetry was published by The University of Georgia Press this year, and won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2010. Sponsored by Distinguished Visitors Fund, the Department of English, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the John B. Hurford ‘60 Humanities Center. OMA Passport Event.

Michael Franklin '12 is spending the summer with the Mapping Du Bois Project at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, developing a high school curriculum about race relations in the 7th Ward of Philadelphia.

For their John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center sponsored Student Research Assistantship, Kyle McCloskey ’11 and Karina Puttieva ’11 will be at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles, a non-profit, tax-exempt educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and circulates domestic and international political posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change.

November 11 - 12, 2010: Join us for our first student-run undergraduate symposium! Exploring topics as diverse as digital archivalism, pop media, and the (re)tooling of textual analysis in undergraduate scholarship. Organized by students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges.

Monday, October 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the HHC’s Seminar Room, Stokes 102. Winner of the Marten Toonder Prize and The Irish American Culture Institute Prize for Literature, his work has been compared by some to Dante, John Milton and Patrick Kavanagh,but most often to John Donne. Hearty refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Humanities Center through its Leaves of Grass Fund.

His Last Night Home, which earned di Canzio a 2006 fellowship in theater from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), is inspired by the 1997 incident involving the horrific physical and sexual abuse of Haitian security guard Abner Louima by four New York City policemen, chief among them Justin Volpe (on whom Leo is based).

We asked faculty from the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities at Haverford to give us their thoughts about the upcoming year by responding to the following question: "What do you think will be the most significant development or trend in your field of study in 2004 and why?"

Kim Benston, Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center, will be the faculty mentor for next year's Humanities Center Student Seminar, "Musical Sampling and Cultural Appropriation in Hip-Hop", which is designed and run by English major James Kittler and Growth & Structure of Cities major Duncan Cooper.